Whitehall : $b historical and architectural notesLoftie, W. J. (William John)
History
Whitehall : $b historical and architectural notes
Loftie, W. J. (William John)
Architecture -- England -- London; Whitehall (London, England) -- History
At the beginning of the last century there remained the two gates. The
queer old Gothic King Street Gate was taken down in 1723. In 1759,
Holbein’s Gate was also removed, including, of course, the stairs and
gallery by which Charles I. entered the palace on that fatal 30th
January. The terra-cotta heads of the Cæsars eventually went to Hampton
Court. They are said to have been made by an Italian named Maiano. The
brick and stone-work were removed by the Duke of Cumberland to make a
triumphal arch at Windsor. They form now a green mound near the Long
Walk. Toby Rustat’s leaden statue of James II. still stands behind
the hall, and is popularly supposed to point to the spot on which
James’s father was beheaded. We have seen that this tragedy took place
at the other side of the hall. There was an immediate talk of a new
palace on this site, but it never came to anything. The second plan of
Inigo Jones, that of 1639, is sometimes said to have been consulted
by the authorities. Colen Campbell obtained it for his _Vitruvius
Britannicus_, as he says, “from that ingenious gentleman, William
Emmet, of Bromley, in the county of Kent, Esq., from whose original
drawings the following five plates are published, whereby he has made
a most valuable present to the sons of Art.” Was Mr. Emmet, that
ingenious gentleman, who seems otherwise unknown to fame, the architect
consulted by William’s Government?
[Illustration: _Bird’s-eye View of Whitehall and St. James’s Park_.
_From_ SMITH’S _“Views of Westminster.”_]
INDEX
PAGE
Allowance, daily, 50
Anne of Cleves, 18
” Princess, 69
Banqueting House, the, 15, 16, 27, 28, 30, 32,
36, 38, 43, 48, 55, 56,
57, 58, 63, 65, 66, 69,
70, 75
Bishop Senhouse’s sermon, 60
Burgh, Hubert de, 7, 8
Cales, Little, 10
Campbell’s _Vitruvius_, 43
Castlemaine, Countess of, 69
Chambers’s remarks, 38
Chapel, the design for, 36
Chapman’s mask, 24
Charing, 5, 6
Charles I., his accession, 44
” his burial, 62
” his coronation, 44
” the ill omens, 44, 45
Charles II. at dinner, 70
” death of, 71
Chiffinch, 69
Conway, Lord, 46, 47
Cost, probable, of palace, 38
Cromwell at the Cockpit, 63
” at Whitehall, 48, 61
” his death, 65
” Thomas, 18
Edward I., 6
” VI., 18, 20
” the Confessor, 5
Elizabeth, Queen, 9, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 66
Evelyn, 66, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74
Fergusson’s criticisms, 36
Fire of 1681, 74
” 1698, 73, 74
Gallery of Henry VIII., 66
” The Matted, 66
” ” Shield, 66
” ” Stone, 66, 69
Gate, Holbein’s, 9, 55, 66, 75
” King Street, 75
Grey, Walter, 8
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